Raised in the pixelated dawn of Atari, she is a neurodivergent introvert who jumps at shadows but still dives headfirst into editing the world of horror, perhaps because she is just the right amount of unhinged. Able to spot a rogue comma from across the room and build Lego masterpieces with equal precision.

X: @watery_tart19

Initially from the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, a region with a treasure trove of mysterious legends and monstrous entities, Alex is a champion of games that can be found exploring the entirety of gaming history for compelling stories and satisfying gameplay.

He is the Co-Owner and EIC of Forever Classic Games, a clutter-free media outlet that focuses on timeless titles and retro-inspired projects. His name can be found across games media on sites such as Popular Mechanics, Twin Galaxies, Marooners’ Rock, and more as well as various print books such as the SNES Omnibus.

Favorite Horror Game: Bloodborne

Andrew is a life-long horror fan, who became a true gamer after playing Resident Evil for the first time. That franchise led him to the Sega Dreamcast, which ultimately started his career in writing about games.

He is the author of “Dreamcast: Year One” and “Dreamcast: Year Two,” and a team member of fan site The Dreamcast Junkyard. He has previously worked at Lost In Cult as the editor-in-chief for gaming journal [lock-in], and was recently the editor for indie gaming magazine Debug.

Favorite Horror Game: Silent Hill 2

Twilightsoul, also known as Twi, is a friendly variety streamer on Twitch, a Doom 64 (2020) speedrunner, an organizational wizard, a game playtester, and is known as an emotional support wolf to many. Twi loves to create safe spaces all around the internet with the goal of making everyone feel welcome and their voices heard. They are also a part of/a major supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community.

When he's not busy sharing his book of seemingly endless knowledge or organizing everyone's lives, you can find him in his cave printing the next cool thing on his 3d printer, gaming, or… he's off doing a trillion projects for all the communities he's involved in because his brain keeps going like the roots of a tree!

Favorite Horror Games: MADiSON, Ontotis, and Prognostic

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Mark LoProto is an editor and writer covering gaming, tech, and contemporary horror. His work spans deep dives into series like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, along with reporting on the creators and trends shaping the genre today.

He also runs Mark’s Occult, where he explores horror gaming, tech reviews, and paranormal storytelling. When he’s not working, he’s usually rewatching Ghostbusters or planning his next haunted‑history detour.

Favorite Horror Game: Alan Wake

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Alex is a queer southern writer and game developer who loves anything that can give them goosebumps. While an avid player of games from all ages, Alex has a soft spot for the horror classics on the 6th generation of consoles. You'll find them always ready to sink their fangs into anything spooky or bizarre.

Favorite Horror Game: Resident Evil: Code Veronica 

Bluesky: @albino-penguin.bsky.social

X: @Albino_Penguin_

Inducted into The Game Awards Future Class 2023, Alice is a Game Designer with over 8 years' experience working in both indie and AAA. An avid horror gamer since childhood, Alice is now developing horror games with her studio Paper Flower Games, including the upcoming supernatural survival horror 'Woodside'.

Favorite Horror Games: Silent Hill, Project Zero, and the Resident Evil series

Andrea Carter is a girlie pop horror fan. Her favorite horror games are Alan Wake 2, The Quarry, and Cult of the Lamb. She believes in Final Destination franchise supremacy.

Instagram: @bouncyandrea

Damian Hex is a horror-themed performer, video game tester, and media personality. As a proud queer person of color, he uses his voice to amplify marginalized voices. You can find him at screenings, nightlife events, conventions, and ghoul gatherings. When he is not outside striking terror into the hearts of innocents, you can catch him spreading the unholy word to audiences on Twitch. Speaking of Twitch, he has several favorite game titles, including Cult of the Lamb, Hollow Knight, Mortal Kombat, Parasite Eve, and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Instagram: @damianhex

Twitch: @chemicalboyx

TikTok: @chemicalboyx

A lifelong horror fan who loves Halloween, Alien, and The Devil’s Rejects.

I’m El Joe a Puerto Rican survival horror content creator, writer, and host behind La Bóveda de Joe and La Autopsia. My work is all about breaking down the psychology, history, and cultural impact of survival horror, while La Bóveda Podcast lets me connect directly with developers who are shaping the genre today.

I’m also the founder of TheSurvivalHorror.com, a living archive documenting survival horror and its precursors from 1981 to 2026 and still growing.

My all-time favorite games are Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill 2, and Tormented Souls, and I’m also a big fan of the Diablo franchise. Those titles define what I love most about gaming: atmosphere, psychological weight, and immersive worlds that stay with you long after you put the controller down.

For me, survival horror isn’t just something I play it’s something I study, live, and represent. It’s a language of fear, and I’m here to break it down.

Instagram: @yosoyelxjoe

YouTube: @yosoyelxjoe

X: @yosoyelxjoe

TikTok: @yosoyelxjoe

If you asked James Chen what his favorite horror game was, he'd point to Devotion's religious trauma or the headtrippy narrative in Slay the Princess. If you asked him which one he spent the most time on... sheepishly, it'd be Tharsis and its dice-based cannibalism. Just one more roll...

Favorite Horror Games: Dead Space, Phasmophobia, and Welcome to the Game 2

TikTok: @gamingfatrat

Jay is a freelance writer and podcaster specializing in covering indie horror games for outlets such as Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, Fearzine Magazine, Cultured Vultures, and others. Jay also hosts and produces the weekly horror gaming podcast Safe Room for Bloody Disgusting. Condemned: Criminal Origins, Resident Evil 4, and Sanitarium are among his favorite horror games.

An appreciator of the power of horror games to either showcase cosmic terror or give dramatic form to horrors behind our so-called mundane lives.

Favorite Horror Games: Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame

Bluesky: @ladymistdragon.bsky.social

Mareike aka Sumi hid behind the sofa when she was 4 years old to secretly watch along when her dad watched Army of Darkness, and that tells you all you need to know about her love for horror.

Since then, she has watched over 3,000 movies, of which almost 800 are horror films. But because movies aren't enough, she also started streaming horror games on Twitch with a big focus on indie titles, became the leader of the horror stream team CEOs of Screams, joined the jury of the Horror Game Awards, and became an official ambassador for Women in Games.

Besides all the horror, Sumi has a huge passion for building connections, community, and helping people find the things they will connect with, be it in the form of movies, music, or video games.

Favorite Horror Game: Mouthwashing

Instagram: @SumiBubbles

Twitch: @Sumimee

X: @SumiBubbles

Markus has always been a horror enthusiast since he was handed the first issue of Goosebumps. Around the same time the first Resident Evil was released, he fell in love with the genre and video games in general. He's a historian and archeologist by day, playtester by night and previously worked on games like Anno 1800 and Rainbow Six Siege. He's worked in esports since 2015 and still thinks this was the biggest horror game of his lifetime. He still hates jumpscares. 

Favorite Horror Game: The Callisto Protocol

Bluesky: @fl4tlinr.bsky.social

X: @Fl4tLinr

Melancholygeek is an old German fart whose first horror game was Pac-Man on the Atari 2600, and yes, he will die on that hill.

A firm believer that, yes, you can love Resident Evil and Silent Hill at the same time, and there’s no truly bad game in either franchise. He’s a professional stickler for details by day and a horror streamer by night - all whilst trying to squeeze in his reading and writing, both of which he does a lot.

Veteran of both E1M1 and Reload Magazine in various capacities, Melancholygeek enjoys making the leadership’s life a veritable Hell, which is quite on-brand for the mag, so that’s alright.

Favorite Horror Game: Silent Hill 3

Twitch: @melancholygeek

Bluesky: @melancholygeek.bsky.social

Phil has been into horror since a young age, when the Goosebumps and The Last Vampire books captured his imagination. That love transferred over to horror games the second he saw the zombie in the intro to Resident Evil 2 on the PS1 and he's been a survival horror fanatic ever since.

Phil is the co-creator of The Horror Game Awards while moonlighting as a YouTube video essayist and a grounded permadeath challenge runner on The Last of Us games. He goes by AKblackandred on basically every social media platform he doom scrolls.

Favourite Horror Games: Resident Evil 2, Tormented Souls 2, and SIGNALIS.

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Robyn is a horror content creator from Ireland who has been gaming since she was first able to hold a controller.

Throughout life she was always into the weird & wonderful, and although her gaming career started very early on, Robyn didn't find refuge in horror gaming until around 2022, when she dared to enter Mount Massive Asylum for the first time...

Something flipped inside of her that day, and since then she has been totally engrossed in the world of horror gaming, with a passion for showcasing & uplifting indie developers within the genre.

The Outlast franchise quickly became one of her all-time favorites, and since making the decision to become a horror-focused creator she has completed over 300 titles and continues to add more to that list each week!

Robyn surrounds herself in all things terrifying. Whether it's her work in Fearzine or The Horror Game Awards, her content creation or beyond; She is stuck firmly within horrors grasp and feels right at home!

Instagram: @elvengore_

Twitch: @elvengore_

YouTube: @elvengore_

X: @elvengore_

TikTok: @elvengore_

Van lives deep in the mountains of Northern Appalachia - Pennsylvania. She has been gaming since the age of 8, playing the original NES Super Mario Bros. Her love of gaming grew through the years becoming a fan of the Tomb Raider series.

Van took her love of gaming and shared it with the world in the fall of 2020 when she began her twitch channel & Twitter page. Years later she grew to be a trusted member of the horror gaming community where she began her journey as a voice actor for her favorite genre of game, horror.

Appearing in over 10 games in a short amount of time, Van continues to voice act in both horror and non horror productions. She recently joined the staff of Fearzine to write about her favorite thing, horror games.

The original creator of Fearzine, Sam scouts projects for Perp Games, makes games under DOSMan Games, and is always looking for the next way to boost indie developers and creators.

X: @MarshallSam__

Cheesecake Jake earned his name working as a chef and baking cakes, for many years. After long shifts in the kitchen, Jake would always load up the next horror game he could get his mitts on. Originally from Parts Unknown, Jake now resides in upstate New York, with at least four cats that we know of.

Cheesecake Jake has always had a passion for all things spooky, and collecting physical media. Jake can be found online, somewhere, spending his days live streaming, writing, and of course baking cheesecakes.

Favorite Horror Game: Alien Isolation

Caffeine-fueled Canadian connoisseur of all things gaming. Designer, developer, article writer, and eternal critic of games that rely on jump scares.

Also known as horrorvisuals, Hurcan runs the Horror Games Community on Twitter. Hurcan helps indie developers promote their games and also curates new games for horror fans all over the world.

He’s got his hands in a little bit of everything these days: Writer, host of various gaming shows, blossoming game developer and genuine lover of horror in all its forms. Passionately leaning in and believing in a good terrifying story, letting that danger feel real just for a little bit.

Katherine Baskin is a writer, sometimes movie podcaster, and a social media & community manager for games. She is staying frosty.

Paul Farrelly is a seasoned gaming journalist and the owner of Geekgasm, where he delivers in-depth video game reviews, geek culture coverage, and entertainment analysis. He also writes regularly for LADbible, covering the latest in gaming, news, and pop culture. Oh, and he thinks he’s Batman!

A lifelong horror fan, Paul has a particular passion for immersive and spine-chilling experiences, whether in VR nightmares, cinematic horror adventures, or survival horror epics. From analyzing the terrifying brilliance of Until Dawn to surviving the relentless horrors of the Resident Evil series and the eerie madness of Mouthwashing, Paul loves the adrenaline rush of interactive horror. He’s also an experienced playtester, putting everything from psychological thrillers to action-packed horror shooters through their paces on PC, console, and Steam Deck.

When he’s not chasing scares, Paul enjoys revisiting classic point-and-click adventures and spending weekends with his family—though even then, there’s usually a horror movie or game in the mix.

Bluesky: @geekgasm.bsky.social

Professional writer, cat lover and Troll 2 apologist. Loves folk, cosmic, 80s and body horror. Also writes for Reload Magazine. Favourite games include: Amnesia: the Dark Descent, Dead Space 2, Manhunt, and Condemned: Criminal Origins.

Rob is a horror game and movie buff, and a software developer with seven years in games professionally. Crafting horror indie games solo has been his passion for most of his life.

An eSports lecturer, live streamer and content creator. Tom has previously worked in media at Wrexham Football Club. Now he is more known for his screams on Twitch or his bad dancing! You can find Tom playing a variety of horror over on Twitch and YouTube.